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This chapter will explore the increased political attention on parenting intervention, following on from the Allen Report (2010). Policies, reports and parenting intervention strategies will be explored and considered. This will include the ‘Helping Parents to Parent’ report (Clarke et al. 2017) which was commissioned by the Social Mobility Commission and which calls for the normalisation of parenting programme and increase in comparative government approaches that consider universal parenting support to be a ‘public health issue’ (Clarke et al. 2017, p. 5). Insight into evaluations of parenting courses will also be provided in this chapter, along with reflections on the rise in attention on parenting with associations that can be made to the use and misuse of neuroscientific research by those in positions of power. This chapter will include participant reflections relating to why they decided to attend a parenting course and their experiences of the courses themselves.
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Simmons, H. (2020). Surveillance or Support? Political Intervention and the Universal Parenting Course. In: Surveillance of Modern Motherhood. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45363-3_4
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